Graham N. Fitch

Graham Newell Fitch (5 December 1809-29 November 1892) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-IN 9) from 4 March 1849 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding Charles W. Cathcart and preceding Norman Eddy) and a US Senator from 4 February 1857 to 3 March 1861 (succeeding John Pettit and preceding Henry Smith Lane).

Biography
Graham Newell Fitch was born in Le Roy, New York in 1809, and he became a lawyer in Logansport, Indiana in 1834. He served in the state legislature before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1849 to 1853, and he went on to serve in the US Senate from 1857 to 1861. At the start of the American Civil War, he raised a regiment of soldiers from the US Army, and he was later promoted to Brigadier-General, taking part in the capture of Fort Pillow and of Memphis. In 1862, he resigned his commission because of injuries received in action, and he died in 1892. His grandson, Edwin C. Denby, would go on to serve in the US House of Representatives and as Secretary of the Navy.